Submission + - Via Nano spanks Intel Atom in netbook benchmarks (zdnet.co.uk)
Glib Piglet writes: "ZDNet UK has a whole set of benchmarks comparing a 1.8 GHz Nano in VIA's Epia SN motherboard and a 1.6 GHz Atom in Intel's 'Little Falls' D945GCFL mobo. It's not good news for Chipzilla. With phrases like "As far as memory performance is concerned, the Nano is clearly superior in every test" and "The VIA Nano emerges as the better processor for internet tasks. While the Atom needs 132.8 seconds to display simple HTML pages, the Nano does it in 70.1 seconds.", there's little to write home about. The Nano even outperforms Nehalem on one test. It's not all win for Via, though. The benchmark concludes that in some ways, all netbooks remain in the IT stone ages."
